Quest for the Yokai Stones

by Wolf-Kari

Kili and Kari (sorta like Kagome and Sango) are thieves who cross paths with Inuyasha, Kouga, and Miroku. All find that they are part of the quest of the Yokai stones and are up against some evil people, including Naraku. LEMON in later chaps.

5. An Old Foe

Chapter 5: An Old Foe

Soldiers were swarming the hut. Kaede was the one who had let out that scream, for the soldiers had dragged her out of the hut by her hair. Kari and Kouga were sitting in the bushes near by, watching the entire scene. They were tearing the small hut apart. Miroku, Inuyasha and Kili were no where in sight. "Where are they?" she whispered.
"They probably ran off before they even got here and Kaede is putting on a show. But why are they here?"
"Umm..."
"What did you do?"
"Back before you met us, we had kinda stolen something from the lord of some small city near the ocean. We thought that we lost his trackers a while ago. We shouldn't have stayed here this long." She gazed out at the scene. Kaede had bashed a soldier over the head with a cooking pot for looking through her clothing. It was a comical scene.
"What exactly did you steal?" he asked, hoping against hope it was replaceable.
"Actually, it wasn't so much as stealing than rescuing..."
"What?!"
"Shush!" she said urgently. "He had a young woman at the palace I had met before in our travels. He forced her to...serve him."
"I see. So you rescued her. Is she replaceable?"
"There's more to it. Without our knowing, she took his most prized horse and his family's amulet. I don't think it's replaceable. The only thing is, she disappeared a long time ago and only Kili and I know where she is."
"Great," he mumbled. "I guess our only chance is to run, come on." He grabbed her arm but she pulled away.
"Hell, no! These guys may be excellent trackers and very good fighters, but they are very, very stupid, otherwise."
"Then why would the lord send them?"
"As I said, he was of a very small city. Besides, he's not too bright himself. It was easy to trick him. His men are even easier. Though it'll be fun, I don't understand how they found us. Trust me; Kili will be joining us any minute." Before he could stop her, she walked out of the bushes. It took them a second to realize she was there.
"Hey, you! You're who we are looking for! Come here before we have to hurt you!" He started to saunter over to her. She held out her hands and a soft mist started coming out. She could feel heat being emanated from a bush nearby. It was Kili. They created a fairly thick fog in a matter of minutes. You could only see two feet in front of you.
"Come back here!" the soldier yelled. But it was too late, the fog had obscured her. She was suddenly there at his side.
"Right here," she whispered into his ear. Before he could grab her she jumped back into the fog. From the other side of him, another whisper came.
"And here," Kari whispered. He jumped with fright as she jumped back into the fog. They continued to scare the troops. They jumped around from left to right, whispering in the soldiers' ears. Suddenly a voice rang out that did not have their accent from the coast.
"You bumbling idiots! There're two of them! Find them now! I'll, get rid of this fog!"
"Hiten!" Kari gasped. She looked toward where Kili last was. "I am sorry," she whispered. She ran off into the forest. Because she couldn't see through the fog and she was panicked, she tripped many times and was all scratched up and bruised. She suddenly thumped into something and this time it wasn't a tree. It grabbed her wrists and held them behind her back.

"Missed me?" the voice whispered into her ear. Hiten. She had run in a circle. A blast of lightening filled through the air and the fog started to dissipate. She was at the edge of the other side of the clearing. The soldier who had first spoken had Kili. Kari gasped as an unwanted hand ran down her spin, towards her hot spot. When he touched it she cringed. As the fog finally lifted, she saw Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kouga standing at the far side of the clearing.
"Let them go," Inuyasha growled menacingly.
"What are you going to do?" he chided. "You can't use that wind tunnel of yours because you'll suck them up too. You're just a half demon and you," he finally said pointing toward Kouga, "you won't even try to stop me."
"Why wouldn't I?" he yelled in rage. Inuyasha was turning red in his anger and Miroku was trying to think of a solution.
"Because if you do," he paused as he flicked a dagger to Kari's throat, "I'll kill her, without a second thought." He paused and nuzzled her neck. "Though it would be a shame to lose something so...beautiful, won't it?" His eyes flashed to Kouga, who seemed unable to take his eyes from that knife. "She is a little minx isn't she?" he chided. "She seems to catch a lot of men's attention." Inuyasha was just about ready to lunge for Kili but Hiten was quicker. He threw the dagger at Kili, but Inuyasha ran in front of her, taking the blow of the knife. Another dagger flicked to Hiten's hand and rested at Kari's throat. Kili struggled with all her might against the soldier so she could get to Inuyasha, who had fallen to his knees. She screamed his name as he fell to the ground, unconscious. Kili tried to use her power, but failed. There was nothing there but her demonic instinct. She couldn't feel her power. Kari didn't struggle. She was gripped by fear as memories flooded through her head. Kili was screaming as the soldiers closed in around her. Kouga and Miroku jumped in, but were blocked by a powerful ward, blocking their entrance into the group if soldiers. They pounded against the ward, trying to break through. Miroku's powers as a monk did nothing for him. Kari felt Hiten press himself against her. "Those three days were too short for my pleasure," he whispered into her ear. He again ran his fingers down her spine, finding that spot that made her shiver. He relished it. "I missed you more than you could imagine," he said teasingly. Tears started to pour from her eyes. She glanced to Kouga, who was trying to break the barrier. He started to circle around toward her. She turned her head to find Kili in the center of a ring of men who were trying to get her, but even her fighting did not ward off the lecherous touches. "You may have that one," he called over to the men. "But don't kill her. Sanyli and Sakuso said that they want them alive." "What about that one?" he said pointing to Kari. "We'd all like a turn with her too."
"She's mine," he said with a grin.
"Kari!" Kouga screamed as he came around to her on the other side of the barrier.
"K-Kouga," she whispered.
"I've had just about enough of you, Kouga! You're life ends here." Just as Kouga was about to brake the barrier, lightening slammed into him. He flew backwards into a tree, dead.
"No!" Kari screamed. For the first time she struggled against Hiten. He pressed her arms together so tightly that they almost pulled out of the sockets. Tears stained her face as she struggled against him. Her power wouldn't work. She knew it wouldn't. He was warded. He was protected from her power. She tried to blink the tears from her eyes. Hiten pushed her to the ground.
Kili was surrounded by men. She didn't know what to do. Someone tried to grab her, but she punched him in the nose, causing it to brake. Someone else tried, but she kicked him in the chest, sending him flying from the circle. Two more grabbed at her, she got one, but the other made her topple to the ground. He straddled her hips and pressed her hands to the ground. She thrashed about but he was a too big and was crushing her. He held both of her hands over her head. He was about to rip her shirt off when Hiten pushed through the ring. "Not now," he commanded. The soldier stopped what he was doing but didn't let her go. "Wait until we get to the castle. Her clothes stay on until then. We don't want to look suspicious, now do we?"
"Of course," the man said from atop of Kili. "But if we leave her clothes on?" He said with a grin on his face. With that he gave Kili's breast a squeeze. Kili screamed in pain as his fingers bruised her flesh. "Fine, but let her face be unharmed. As I said, we don't want people suspicious." As he was about to walk away, he turned back. "Make sure they stay away from each other. They may see each other, but they cannot speak to one anther." All of the men nodded in agreement. As they started off, Miroku thought the barrier would leave, but to his dismay, it stayed around them. He couldn't follow for he would only get himself killed. He went back to tend to Inuyasha, Kouga, and Kaede, for the sooner they were better, the sooner they could rescue the girls.

It had been a week since they were taken. It had been seven, very long days with no sign of their rescuers. Kili was sitting at the edge of the camp, trying to sleep despite the bruises all over her body. A drunk sauntered over and grabbed her butt. "How about some fun?" he slurred. A kick to the mouth sent him sprawling back over to his comrades. Intrigued, three more came over to her. They weren't as drunk as their comrade so they would be harder to handle.
Before she could react, the biggest guy grabbed her by the hair and hauled her up to her knees. The shortest punch her in the stomach. "That wasn't a very nice thing to do to him, now was it?" He gave a nod to his friend as he threw a couple more punched into her stomach. She tried to punch back, but the third grabbed her arms and pinned them behind her back. The short man, who was still tall in comparison to her, sank down to her level and looked her in the eye. "We've been real easy on you until now. We could be much crueler to," he grabbed her right breast and squeezed as hard as he could, "satisfy ourselves." She struggled to get away from him but he slapped her. "You're not going to get out of this, young missy. You have your powers locked away. You can't harm us past a broken nose. Right now you can't do anything." He took a rope from his belt and tossed it to his friend, who tied her wrists, which she had recently freed, together so tightly that the rope cut into her flesh. The man holding her hair pushed her to the ground. Before she could rise, the short man straddled her hips to stop her from kicking and getting up. Her powers were locked so she couldn't use her them to lift him off of her. She twisted and turned but he couldn't get out from underneath him.

Her screams came to Kari's ears. She winced with each scream. She couldn't bear knowing what was happening to her friend. It hurt her almost as much as what Hiten was doing to her. Almost.
Hiten walked into the room with a cocky smile on his face. He squatted down next to where she was chained up in far too tight manacle. "I hope you enjoy those screams. You'll be hearing them for another month before we can get back to the castle." She looked away from him. Kari and Kili had both made an oath not to speak to these men. Hiten lifted her head up and licked her lips. "You taste delicious. I can't wait as long as a month to take you. I might just have to take you on the road." He smiled an insane smile and crushed his lips to hers, forcing his tongue down her throat. She did the only thing she could think of; she bit down as hard as she could. Hiten pulled away with a roar, blood dripping down his chin. "You bitch!" he screamed, slapping her so hard the she flew across the tent. "How dare you..." he stopped and smiled a sickening grin. Stooping down next to her, he grabbed her chin and brought he face close to his. "Do you remember when we were kids? Do you?" Kari didn't answer so he continued. "We were in the same village, you and I. We used to play together. When my family moved away I was devastated. I vowed that I would see you again. But when I went to see you, you saw evil in my eyes, immediately shunning me because of it. You had grown so beautiful," he cooed stroking her cheek mockingly, "and I fell in love with you. But you wouldn't have me, so I took you for myself after years of training with my master." He moved his hands to her waist and sat her upright. "But you had to escape. I would have made you my wife. I would have claimed you, but your friend had to steal you away from me! But this time I will claim you before it is too late." He smirked and leaned close to Kari, his hands wandering around her body. "I can't let you waist you life with that dead wolf now can I?" He grabbed her and started kissing her harshly while exploring her body. Tears started to stream down Kari's face. She couldn't get away. She couldn't leave. She could barely move.

"Do you smell that?" Kouga yelled back to Inuyasha. It had been a week since the villains had taken Kili and Kari into their clutches. As soon as the two were well enough to travel, the trio had been looking for the girls. "Yeah! We're gaining on them. They are traveling pretty slow. I hope they're okay..." "Well, there is nothing we can do about it until we find them, so get a move on!" Miroku stated as he brought up the rear of the party. Glaring at him, Kouga and Inuyasha turned back to what they were doing and continued to track Hiten. At last, that night they came upon the caravan. What they could see wasn't very pretty. The soldiers were scattered around a clearing in the middle of the woods. Toward the far side of the clearing was a slightly larger group of men than the others. "I wonder..." Miroku started but before he could finish a blood chilling scream came from the direction of the group. "Kili!" Inuyasha yelled but before he could run into the camp, Miroku and Kouga pulled him back. "What are you doing? Let me go!" Inuyasha roared. "Shut up!" Kouga whispered, clamping a hand over his mouth. "Do you want to get us killed, mutt face?!" Inuyasha glared but said nothing.
Later that night, three, silent figures crept into the camp. One with long, silver hair crept through the trees towards the back of the camp. A second ran towards Hiten's tent. The third ran straight into the middle of the camp and started screaming. Sleeping and drunk soldiers started to come out of their tents to see what was going on. What they saw was a comical scene. Miroku was standing in the center of camp screaming on top of his lungs that there was a demon on the woods. He looked to be covered in blood, but was really covered in berry juice, and his eyes were rolling around in his head as if each had a mind of its own. "I'm telling you," he screamed with an insane laugh, "that there is a twenty foot demon on the loose nearby. He'll kill you! Haha! He'll kill you all!"
"What's gong on here! Who is disturbing me?!" Hiten roared as he came upon the scene.
"It's a demon, sir!" said a soldier next to him. "This man claims to have been attacked by a demon!"
"Hey you!" Hiten yelled at Miroku. "You say that there is a demon out there!" Miroku turned toward him to answer, but that was a very big mistake. "YOU!" Hiten screamed in his rage. "You're that monk who was with that mutt and wolf! What are you doing here?!" Hiten spat in the now terrified Miroku's face.
"Ha...funny you should ask that. You see, I was just strolling through the neighborhood and I just so happen to come across your camp."
"Really, now?" With that Hiten turned to the soldiers surrounding him. "Search the camp for the mutt face, and, who knows, maybe even wolfy boy is back from the dead." The most of the soldiers left to search the camp and a few remained to chain Miroku. "So, why are you really here, monk?" Hiten asked with a sickening grin on his face.
"My friends and I have names, you know," Miroku replied nonchalantly.

"Really, monk? What are they?" Hiten asked in a mocking voice.
"Death, Murder, and Pain," came an all too familiar voice behind him.
"Ah mutt face, so good of you to join us! Why don't you come over here so I can rip your throat out?" Hiten said casually to the darkness behind him. To Hiten's horror, Kouga, who he thought dead, answered.
"We were really thinking about doing that the other way around."
"What the..." Inuyasha drew the Tetsusaiga and swung, but Hiten jumped into the air while blasting lightening at him.
"I found Kili," whispered Inuyasha to Kouga. "She is doing some damage among her captors."
"I wish I could say the same for Kari," Kouga said back. "She wasn't in the tent and I didn't have time to look anywhere else!"
"Of course you didn't find her!" Hiten laughed. "Do you honestly think I would be stupid enough to let my most...treasured possession to be left unguarded and unsafe?"
"We were actually counting on your stupidity," replied Miroku in an informative tone, only to be sent more lightening strikes. "I would greatly appreciate it if you freed me. That way I won't be BURNED TO A CRISP!" Miroku roared at the two. Inuyasha cut the chains that bound Miroku while Kouga lunged for Hiten.
"Go do your thing Miroku!" Inuyasha whispered as Miroku slipped off into the darkness.

When Miroku arrived on the other side of camp, he found Kili sitting on top of a huge soldier with a strangely shaped bump growing out of the blood matted hair on the back of his head.
"What took you so long?" she asked agitatedly. "I was done five minutes ago! It is a lot easier fighting these buffoons when I am not tied up."
"Well, I had to deal with a very pissed off demon who had apparently tied me up," Miroku replied.
"Excuses, excuses. Now would you mind starting you little interference thingy so Kari and I can get our powers back?"
"Fine, fine," Miroku said as he sat on a nearby boulder. "Inuyasha, Kouga, and I spent the entire day setting up barriers within a mile radius of here and Hiten couldn't have hidden Kari that far..."
"He hid her?!"
"Yes, unfortunately."
"Perfect! Just what we need!"
"If you would like your powers unblocked so you can help defeat Hiten, I suggest you shut up," Miroku said curtly.
"Fine!" Kili said huffily. Miroku sat up and put his staff in between his legs, making it stand up right. A wind stirred in the trees and a small light started to glow from the staff. The light blue light grew stronger and stronger until... "Oh my god!" Kili exclaimed as beams of light shot out from the staff in dozens of different directions, one going straight into her. All of the other beams were spread out at even intervals, all except one.
Kari was sitting on a tree branch with a knife at her throat. A stern looking soldier stared out into the darkness as sounds of fighting erupted in the camp. Spells had been placed over the tree warding off anyone but this soldier and Hiten. What it didn't ward off were souls seeking spells.
A blue light erupted from the underbrush and shot straight toward Kari, only slowing slightly at the barrier. "What the...?" but the soldier was cut off from a violent boom as the light struck Kari's heart. Kari slowly lifted into the air.
"Your power is your own..."
Kili's eyes unfocused as the words poured forth from her lips.
"Your birthright regiven..."
Kari floated as she recited words of the spell's breaking.
"Let your mind flow free..."
Both slowly floated down.
"Let your soul be restored..."
"Kili! Are you okay?" Miroku asked as she fell back to the ground.
"Wha...what happened?" she muttered as her eyes opened.
"You're back in action." Miroku helped Kili up and made sure she was fine. As they were going to make their way to find Kari, a series of explosions shook the campsite. "What was that?" Miroku shouted over the noise.
"A very pissed off wolf demon."
After landing on the ground, Kari had had enough. She felt her power and built-up rage coursing through her veins and she knew exactly who she wanted to vent it on. With her newly found fury she bounded back to the camp, blowing trees and rocks out of her way. Nothing was going to stop her now. Fear had turned to a white hot pocker of pure hatred just waiting to be let out.
Lighting scorched the grass as Kouga, Inuyasha, and Hiten battled on. Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga was somewhere in the forest, where it can't help its master who had a gash across his face and a hole in his side. Kouga wasn't much better off. He had a twisted ankle and gashes on his arms and legs. Hiten had scratches on his face and a broken arm. "Give it up!" Hiten screamed. "You can never win against me! You are only a simple mutt and a puppy of a wolf. You can never beat me!"
"You bastard!" Kouga yelled as he rushed forward. Lightening grew in Hiten's fist.
"Stop." A hand reached out and grabbed Kouga by the shoulder, stopping him in his tracks. Hiten's eyes grew wide with surprise. Kari stepped between the two of them.
"Kari?" Kouga whispered.
"That's right, wolfy boy. She's mine and she's on my..." but before Hiten could finish his sentence, Kari whipped around and punched him in the jaw, sending him sprawling on the ground.
"This is my fight," she whispered with menace.
"But..." Kouga started.
"Don't get in my way," she growled. Hiten got up slowly and turned toward Kari.
"How the hell could you hit me? How the hell can you be here? What the hell is going on, bitch?" Kari walked slowly toward Hiten.
"I am not your bitch anymore, you little lightning bug."
"How dare you call me that!"
"How dare I?" she asked with the smallest smile on her face. The smile quickly faded and her eyes turned to a deep blue that is barely distinguishable from black. "How dare I after what you have done to me? How dare I after you raped me and almost claimed me as your own? How dare I want to kill you, who had taken away my virginity? How dare I want to strangle the man who haunted my worst fears in the dark recesses of my mind?" She continued to advance on him as her eyes grew darker and the air crackled with her power and anger. "How dare I call you a childish name? I think the more correct thing for you to do is plead for your life because I don't fear you any more." She slowly put both hands into the air near the sides of her head and raised her first three fingers.
"But...but your powers are locked. You're powerless!" Her three fingers glowed light blue. She slid them slowly through the air, a thin sheet of ice forming in the track of each finger. "You can't...there...there's no way!" She held the blades of ice between her fingers and looked into his eyes. The whites of her eyes glowed blue around her jet black iris. "You can't! You're mine!" he said with the slightest confidence.
"Nope, wrong answer." With that she crossed her arms and threw the blades of ice at Hiten. The blades whistled through the air and sliced his skin is various places. He started to run. "You can't hide from me!" she yelled with an insane laugh. "Lightening is attracted to water. Everyone knows that." Hiten turned and threw bolts of lightening at Kari. She didn't seem perturbed about this. The very air around her was crackling and each blow that hit her seemed to be absorbed into the whirlwinds of water and ice around her. She continued to laugh as if Hiten had told a hilarious joke. "You think a little lightening can stop me? Water and lightening are attracted to each other! But I guess you forgot your reasons to lock up my powers in the first place," she said with a smile on her face.
Inuyasha, Kouga, Miroku, and Kili were watching this from the edge of the clearing. The three men where stunned by what they were witnessing. They could not believe that she was taking his orbs of electricity as if they were nothing. Kili was the only one who was not surprised, only worried. "This is impossible!" Kouga yelled over the deafening sound coming from Hiten's blasts and the occasional shots of ice the Kari threw at him.
"Quite possible, actually," Kili replied as she watched her friend with concern. "The only problem was that she never mastered this technique during our training."
"What do you mean?" Miroku asked.
"In our school we were each taught the different abilities of the powers that we were given by the Yokai stones. She once told me of a technique used against those of lightening. She only mentioned it because she was having trouble mastering it at the time."
"Kari? Have trouble mastering something? From some of the stuff you've told me that seems hardly possible," Inuyasha said with a snort.
"Actually, it makes sense," Miroku said. "Have you ever seen a body of water struck by lightening? The lightening almost uses the water as a way to disperse itself. It seems as if the water absorbs it and anything inside the water is instantly killed. But the water never changes."
"Exactly," replied Kili.
"So let me get this straight," said Kouga. "She can absorb Hiten's energy?"
"Yes, but she was never able to master it," answered Kili.
"Wait," said Inuyasha. "What happens to all the energy if she succeeds?"
"Give it up Hiten!" Kari shouted at him as he faced her. "You can't beat me!" He was running out of options. He thought that if he was able to hit her with enough energy she would be consumed, but it obviously wasn't working. He drew his sword. "Aw. You're going to fight me like a man? Well guess what?" He wasn't listening. Instead he rushed toward her with his blade raised. "I'm no man." The torrents of power around her grew faster. "I'm a woman." His sword came in contact with the whirlwind of power and all the absorbed lightening was released on its owner, Hiten. He shot backward from the force of electricity that had torn through his body. He lay almost dead on the ground about fifty feet away from where Kari was standing. Her eyes slowly faded to their usual color and the air around her returned to its usual condition. She turned and looked up at Kouga, Kili, Inuyasha, and Miroku and fainted.

Yo PPLZ! THis is my first FANfic so i hope ya like it! i know its a bit unual. Tats why i didn't put it up in the first place. After writing 5 chaps i changed my mind. You I hope ya Like it! R&R suggestions and death threats are all welcome! I'll be writing soon! Ja Ne!